Category Archive: Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX, FORD
Unveiled: The Ford GT LM-GTE Pro Race Car – They Will Be At LeMans For 2016!
(Photos: Ford) We knew it was coming, and it is everything we hoped it would be and then some. At a press conference this morning at LeMans, Ford unveiled the racing variation of the upcoming GT...
Ford And Renault Tease Up Their Surprises For The 24 Hours of Lemans
(Lead photo: John Dagys) This year’s 24 Hours of LeMans is going to be interesting before a wheel turns in anger, and you can thank Ford and Renault for the news. Both manufacturers have been...
It’s Built, It’s Bad, And It’s On Ebay: A Nine-Second 1971 Pinto With Teeth
Silly me for thinking that a pinto was a patterned horse. In this case, this 1971 Ford Pinto is really a little monster, ready to take on all comers with a mouth filled with pointy teeth and an...
Ford Shelby GT350’s 5.2L V8: 526 Horsepower, 429 Pounds Of Torque, And An 8,250 RPM Redline – Meet The Screamer
(Photos: Ford) We’ve been waiting to hear the official numbers for Ford’s Shelby GT350, mostly because the speculation of what the 5.2L flat-plane crank V8 would put out was all over the...
Event Coverage: The Fords Of Somernites Cruise’s 100th Show: Blue Skies And Blue Ovals
The Mopars may have been the main attraction in Somerset this month but that didn’t mean that there weren’t plenty of sights to see for fans of Fords. Up and downs streets, parked in...
Take A Listen To The Radical RXC Turbo – Packing Ford’s 3.5L EcoBoost, Is This A Solid Prediction Of The Upcoming GT’s Performance?
Radical’s only-just street legal track cars are beasts. Two of them hold Nurburgring Nordschliefe lap-time records for production vehicles, in fact. They have used everything from sport bike...
Question Of The Day: What Car From Your Childhood Did Everyone Seem To Own?
When talking cars with people, I always have heard one line at one time or another: “When I was a kid, it seemed like everybody in the neighborhood owned a (Vehicle X). You saw them...
Top 11: McTaggart’s Favorites From Somernites Cruise’s 100th Anniversary and Mopar Show!
It’s taken fourteen years for the Somernites Cruise to reach 100 shows. Starting from a small crowd of a couple hundred cars in 2001, the event has grown into a huge gathering that decends upon...
Unhinged: This 1977 Lincoln Mark V Lowrider Has Me Fighting Off The Urge For Something Lower And Slower
Surely I can’t be the only one who has driving styles that are shaped by moods, can I? On average, I feel I’m a pretty safe driver with a slightly aggressive streak. I try to not turn...
Build-A-Lump Bench Racing Challenge: Ford’s 255ci V8 – How Would You Build The Boat Anchor Windsor?
One of the downsides of being a fan of cars made between 1972-1995 is that more often than not, one look in the engine bay is all that is needed to remind myself why these cars are so derided. Even...
Question Of The Day: What Is The Most Horrifying Car Combination You’ve Ever Seen?
It’s like an automotive freakshow: you know it is wrong from the second your poor eyes saw it, yet somehow you can’t look away. And the more you stare at it, the worse it becomes. There...
Would You Rather, The Fallen From Grace Edition: Do You Take The Chop-Back Olds 442 Or The Shrunken Mercury Cougar?
The Mercury Cougar and the Oldsmobile 442 both have strong lineages. Both cars were meant to be the upscale variation of their platform, the one with the luxuries and amenities that would appeal to...
BangShift Tune-Up: Ford Versus Pontiac And An Airplane Boneyard In Rev Theory’s “Hell Yeah”
Rev Theory’s “Hell Yeah” isn’t a technical song. It isn’t a particularly original layout, it doesn’t have stand-out lyrics. It is just an all-around basic rock...
